[Avodah] Simchas Torah is Really a Holiday for Bavel and not EY

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:54:36PM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: And indeed this has been my question all along.  Why did the Jews
: when they returned to EY adopt the "Golus" practice of reading the
: Torah yearly as was done in Bavel?  Why didn't they go back to the
: original practice of EY?

This is the line of reasoning of R' David Bar-Haim at Machon Shilo
<http://machonshilo.org>. He took it to the logical conclusion, and
reconstructed Nusach EY from the Cairo Geniza and hints in the Yerushalmi.
All contemporary nusachos, being derived from that of Rav Amram Gaon,
are deemed overly golah and inappropriate for EY.

If you advocate roling back centuries of practice WRT leining, why
not a millenium of nusach hetefilah? For that matter, in EY, why don't
they give priority to the pesaqim of the Yerushalmi and only use the
Bavli's pesaqim when the Y-mi has no clear masqanah?

You're asking why they didn't open a can of worms, in which the kelalei
pesaq would be vastly different than the actual norms (outside of
Machon Shilo).

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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